Robert,

>Hi Jim and thank you for your answer....It is not so much giving up the source
>code that is the problem...the boss wants me to teach him how to be me and show
>him how I make EXEs...He wants to learn what I know about programming...we at the universalthread share things, but this is different or is it? That is my concern....:)


That depends on whether you see yourself as a consultant or a programmer. I am a consultant and my goal is to get my client to be independent from me. I am not interested in being married to a client forever. I am interested in solving their immediate problems and getting them to a point where they don't need my direct involvement any more, that is they can survive on their own.

If I do this well, they will call me again in the future when they have a new problem. If I fail then they won't call me again.

I don't see any difference between my clients and the UT except that my clients pay me for what they get. I guess, based on that, my clients should get more from me than the UT folks get.